The author of “Alice” Paulette White incorporates the narrator's unreliable sour memories of Alice as a child through the narrator's adult female life. Paulette White’s narrative decision does a fantastic job on constructing a relationship between the narrator herself and Alice but also achieves her intentional theme of the ideals of a child doesn't always have rhyme or reason, but as time passes and the perception of what they once thought is altered in a way to show them they were mistaken. The author achieves her intentional theme through many different ways but one of her most effective is word choice. In paragraph 6 line 81 the narrator said “I grew beyond her” and that infers that the narrator shut Alice out of her life. Later, in